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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNicole Wallace just showed clips from a reopen rally
and one of the protesters had on a knit cap with a swastika on it. Crickets from Wallace. Why aren't journalists pointing things like this out?
Link to tweet
Roger Ogden, the guy organizing the pro-COVID "protest" in San Diego, is a known white supremacist who has astroturfed a number of "Patriot" rallies over the years. Local news does a major disservice not explaining who he is - like he's just some guy.
If you look at these city by city, look who is organizing them. Look at the names and the organizations. They are either white supremacists or white supremacist-adjacent. They are proxies. These are not organic protests.
Not to say that there aren't people buying in. Those people are generally what are known as "useful idiots." It is truly embarrassing that people are so willing to be led by the nose, but that's who they were all along.
Yup. This "protest" horseshit started right when stories began to appear that the virus was ravaging communities of color (as did the coordinated public calls from other proxies to "open the economy."
Zoonart
(11,747 posts)Turn the cameras off.
Pacifist Patriot
(24,647 posts)ProfessorGAC
(64,413 posts)My last sentence is a lot like your post.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213317634
sfstaxprep
(9,998 posts)She has a lot of stuff to deal with. She's doing a fair job, and is firmly on the right side of this issue, so don't place blame on her for what could be an oversight.
BComplex
(7,977 posts)She's had a long job history of rightwing associations, and even though she's APPARENTLY seen the light about some of the rightwing bullshit, I think her heart is mostly still on the right side of her chest.
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)Nicole might have thought the image spoke for itself and that's why she aired it. I do wish some newspaper reporters would dig into this , though.
elleng
(130,126 posts)John Fante
(3,479 posts)Neo-Nazis and white supremacists (like WH employee Stephen Miller) are more normalized than ever.
Pointing out the inorganic nature of these protests would be most welcome right now.
BigDemVoter
(4,149 posts)not holding these assholes accountable. I am sick of them giving free air time to the Orange Anus for 2 hours every day with no critical questions, whatsoever, and I'm SICK of these protests with NO real journalism. Training a camera on these people and filming them is NOT journalism.
procon
(15,805 posts)that's associated with white power groups.
malaise
(267,784 posts)Yup. This "protest" horseshit started right when stories began to appear that the virus was ravaging communities of color (as did the coordinated public calls from other proxies to "open the economy."